http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100902/NEWS04/9020337/Law-school-to-open-in-Shreveport

“Our school will acknowledge the Judeo-Christian foundation of the legal system,” he said.

How odd, considering that the origins of law are many centuries older than Christianity.

Is this going to be something like Liberty University and Bob Jones University, or does the new school aspire to be legitimate?

Do you also consider all the schools at Notre Dame to be illegitimate?

You have said you are not a mooslem, that you are a Christian.. Yet you clearly show a pattern of disdain for Christianity.. Here you question the legitimacy of a law school, simply because it is part of a “Christian” college.

Freedom of religion, property rights, and so on, if it’s not government financed I say good luck to them.  Probably would attract more students than a Sharia law school.

Thats My Name Too - 02 September 2010 11:29 AM

Freedom of religion, property rights, and so on, if it’s not government financed I say good luck to them.  Probably would attract more students than a Sharia law school.

And be a heck of a lot more fun!!

fred - 02 September 2010 11:26 AM

Do you also consider all the schools at Notre Dame to be illegitimate?

You have said you are not a mooslem, that you are a Christian.. Yet you clearly show a pattern of disdain for Christianity.. Here you question the legitimacy of a law school, simply because it is part of a “Christian” college.

Of course Notre Dame is legit, as are BYU, SMU, TCU, Baylor, and many others.  Institutions such as those, however, are properly distinguished from Bob Jones U and Liberty U.  I’m simply wondering where this new law school will fit in.

You mistake my questioning as disdain.  The unexamined life is not worth living, fred.  Jefferson, as customary, was eloquent:

Thank you for not painting all Christians universities with the same brush, as you would a few.. True, there are some questionable ones, but also many excellent ones also.

Trollfessor - 02 September 2010 11:22 AM

“Our school will acknowledge the Judeo-Christian foundation of the legal system,” he said.

How odd, considering that the origins of law are many centuries older than Christianity.

Is this going to be something like Liberty University and Bob Jones University, or does the new school aspire to be legitimate?

I guess you missed the “Judeo” part of that.

The ancient Greeks were Jews?  Learn something new every day.

I hope they teach this one.  I like it:

If a man’s wife, who lives in his house, wishes to leave it, plunges into debt, tries to ruin her house, neglects her husband, and is judicially convicted: if her husband offer her release, she may go on her way, and he gives her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her husband’s house.

-- Hammurabi http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html

That hammurabi, he knew how to treat a woman!!!!  : )

Trollfessor - 02 September 2010 01:33 PM

The ancient Greeks were Jews?  Learn something new every day.

So none of the basis for our laws came from the bible?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian

Of course there is a Judeo-Christian influence, but to call the foundation of our legal system that is a bit much.

Thats My Name Too - 02 September 2010 11:11 AM

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100902/NEWS04/9020337/Law-school-to-open-in-Shreveport

Just what Louisiana needs, a fifth law school dedicated to turning out fundy lawyers to defend all the creationism and prayer-in-school law suits.

I don’t think we need another school to produce lawyers.

Five law schools in Louisiana are too many.  Those of us graduating this year are having enough trouble finding jobs as it is!  Is it really wise to saturate the market even more?  Plus, WHO will go to this school?  It will take anywhere from 10 to 15 years to be accredited - the result is extreme bottom-of-the-barrel law students who, if they couldn’t get into LSU, Tulane, Loyola, or Southern, probably shouldn’t be practicing law in the first place!

Terrible decision for the state and legal community as a whole, but I can understand the selfish motives.